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Monday Meanderings - Nov 30
Barb put up the UT flag after Thanksgiving. The other day a door-to-door salesman knocked and when she answered the door he said, "We're selling University of Oklahoma jerseys. Would you be interested?" And then just laughed. He didn't make a sale.Conversation while waiting for our meal order to be served:He said:  "You certainly are enjoying the game you downloaded to your iTouch."She said: "Hmmhu."He said:  "Who would have thought that you would be one to get absorbed in a computer game?"She said: "Only when there's absolutely nothing else to do besides talk to my husband."Only in Austin. Capital Metro - that fine entity that

Happy Thanksgiving

Who knew?
That flushing could be so much fun?! We have two new super-efficient-water-saving-fully-rebated-by-the City of Austin toilets now. And when you flush them they don't go gurgle, gurgle, swish, swish, fill, fill, fill, fill. They just sort of go "glup" and "fill" they are done. At least we think they are fully-rebated by the City of Austin; the day we installed them there was a piece in the paper about how the rebate program was so successful they were running out of money.Now I recognize that writing about toilets on the blog is somewhat iffy - but hey, when you are retired you get your fun where you can find it! And really, this blog is really not about flushing toilets,

Monday Meanderings - Nov 23
Saw two decals on the same auto rear window. The first and most prominent decal said, "I hate stupid people." The second, less-obvious decal said, "I am blessed."Ate at Marie Callender's the other evening; noticed that they have a big refrigerated trailer (like those  hauled by semis) parked out back, full of pies? Turkies? Good things to eat, for sure.We're between seasons, bird-wise. Even the pair of Finches that didn't get the memo and stayed behind are now gone. However, a Crested Titmouse came to feed the other day. That's a bird new to my list.My sweet wife made me an upside-down Snuggie - you know, the blanket with sleeves. Except mine doesn't

It's not just the Obituaries...
Keeping Austin Weird is more than just a bumper sticker. You read the weird obituary; here's today's weird weather forecast - straight from the pages of the Austin American Statesman. You can't make this stuff up, folks!"Stricken denizens of Central Texas this morning continue to dig out after the longest and bitterest cold front in more than eight months mercifully moved out of the area. The front, dragged here by a muskoxen team from Iqalut, a tiny town in the Canadian Arctic province of Nunavut, brought with it frigid temperatures in the mid-20s in some godforsaken places and left a blanket of